Wireworld is a cellular automaton first proposed by Brian Silverman in 1987. It is particularly suited to simulating electronic logic elements, or "gates", and, despite the simplicity of the rules, Wireworld is Turing-complete.
A Wireworld cell can be in one of four different states, usually numbered 0–3 in software, modeled by colors in the examples here:
- Empty (Black)
- Electron head (Blue)
- Electron tail (Red)
- Conductor (Yellow)
As in all cellular automata, time proceeds in discrete steps called generations (sometimes "gens" or "ticks").
Cells behave as follows:
- Empty → Empty
- Electron head → Electron tail
- Electron tail → Conductor
- Conductor → Electron head if exactly one or two of the neighbouring cells are electron heads, or remains Conductor otherwise.
With your mouse you can add Conductors by left-clicking on the grid (click again on a conductor to erase it), by righ-clicking you change the state of the grid respectively to Electron head, Electron tail and Conductor cyclically.
By pressing enter you will manually compute a tick of the current generation.
By pressing space you will start to compute next generations manually.
By pressing numbers from 1 to 0 on your keyboard you can set ten different speed to the simulation.
By pressing ? you will see instructions.
An example of the world. A xor gate and two clock generator.
Basic export dialog.
Basic import dialog.
Import export function- More customization on user interface
Mouse drag support